I miss you Sam!!

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Get out the magnifying glass, get into your best sleuthing clothes and start prowling your environment looking for those wonderful, but sometimes elusive shadows. This fun and challenging meme is hosted each week by Tracy over at Hey Harriet! Click on the link under the blog title and sign up to play!! I took another fun trip this week to the most amazing nursery I've ever seen! And it has been such fun to spend time on the roof with all the flowers and plants and the breathtaking views of Mt. Rainier! Hope you've all had a great week, enjoy your weekend and find reasons to laugh and smile!

Friday, July 8, 2011

Weekend Reflections is hosted by James each week beginning Friday at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time. It's another wonderful way of opening your eyes to new and different kinds of beauty. Click on the web address under the blog title and sign up to play with us!

We've had such a beautiful week with lots of sun -- until yesterday! But I did get a shot at the harbor. I had lunch last week at a really delightful English tea room and the second shot was taken from my table at the reflection on the sheer curtains of the very interesting siding on the building next door. Later I visited an incredible nursery where they had a huge display of fountains. It's not the best reflection shot, but I loved the coins on the bottom. Hope you all have a wonderful and happy weekend! Enjoy!

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Time to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by Klaus and the Sky Watch team of Klaus, Sandy, Wren and me. Join us and the many people from all over the world who share theirs with us each week! Click on the address under the post title to be taken to the SWF website where you can sign up. We have had such glorious, warm weather for several days now and I had a wonderful visit with my oldest son who was visiting from Texas! So, it's been a grand week and he and I had lots of fun taking photos from the roof of my apartment building. Hope you enjoy them! Wishing you all a beautiful weekend!!

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.John Muir

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Mark Twain

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.Max Lucado

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

He moves across the world,
observing
the rituals,prayers
and
modes of worship
across the lands.

Fragrant flowers
of the east,
incense sticks,
ghee lamps,
fruits,
betel nut leaves,
and a
daily cleaning
of pooja (worship) vessels
crafted in
old silver
and pewter
of the ages.

She stands
in her balcony,
in Tacoma
rejoicing
in the beauty,
and color
and fragrance of the roses,
the carpets of green,
and
rippling water below,
and watches
in amazement,
as the
rain
brushes against
the dark clouds
in the sky
rubs and rubs
them clean,
amidst
thundering payers,
and
lightning sky lamps.

The thanksgiving
worship ritual can now start;
the sky vessel
has been cleaned and polished,
till the gold,
silver
and pewter
shines through
in prayer....

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Got your dictionary out? You ready to play with the letters? It's that time again! ABC Wednesday is hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt and the ABC team: Denise, Annelie, Leslie, Nathalie, Joyce, Donna, Helen,Roger, Troy, Jay, Barb, Gattina and me! And guess what? It's that day again! It's ABC Wednesday!!

Yoohoo!! Hey Y'all! Yahoo! It's the Y Day!! You are all invited to come to my Yard and start by practicing some Yoga. Don't start Yawning! After the 4th we all need the exercise! Yippee! it's been a great Year so far! Let's go run through fields of Yellow flowers, have a bowl of Yogurt -- and no, it isn't Yucky -- in my Yurt and shout Yippee!! We are the masters of the alphabet one more time! And my Y pics for the day -- with a little help from that Mastermind, Sir Google, are -- Yogurt, Yawn, Yellow and Yurt!!

Monday, July 4, 2011

That's My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me. Join us and share your world with others from all over Our World! Just click on the post title, read the rules, sign up and play with us! So! How is your world this week? Have you taken time to see the beauty there? What is it about your world that makes you smile or laugh or feel grateful for?

A very Happy July 4th to all of you here in the states and a very happy weekend to all of you everywhere! Last week we took a trip to an extremely interesting place with an interesting history and I'm including a link for you to read more about it if you like. http://www.countryvillagebothell.com/historicalinformation/ I had great fun as always taking pictures of this very different shopping mall. I also had the most fantastic lunch I've had in ages at a delightful English Tea Room! Hope you enjoy!

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.

Mark Twain

We have the best government that money can buy.

Mark Twain

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Hey guys, get up off your tush and lets go see Bozo over at his pad in Mumbai! It's always a fun time when we all get together and talk about what's been happin', Bro! You know? Get your human to click on the Post Title, that'll take them to the website where you can sign up! I'll be waiting for you!!

My big brother from Texas has been visiting us and I have another lap to sit in!! Sure has been a fun week for Mom and me!!

What Can I Say?

I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.

Stop Hate Starting Here

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellowPerhaps if the sun’s tears would singagainst a white stone....

Such, such a yellowIs carried lightly ’way up high.It went away I’m sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I’ve lived in herePenned up inside this ghetto.But I have found what I love here.The dandelions call to meAnd the white chestnut branches in the court.

Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last one.Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.

Written by Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942 Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921.Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942. Died in Aushchwitzon Sept. 29, 1944.

Thank You, Anthony!!

Check out his blog and photos!

Chasing Ashes

I love to write and it has been a hobby for a long time. Mysteries were always my escape reading during some of the darker times of my life and I finally decided to give it a try. I've actually written seven over the years. Unfortunately, my last computer disaster resulted in my losing three of the latest four. I did manage to salvage this one.